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iPod Video: which custom build to you use and why? [was: Curiousity]

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melancholydm:
aaahhh never really thought of the custom builds to be more along the lines of eye candy~ my initial thoughts were that they were more of using unsupported features and just experimented about. As for eye candy I dont really care much outside of icons and backdrop since Im very happy with only using Kelps (perfection in simplicity I say). Since im pretty new to rockbox im still trying to explore the player itself maybe later on ill mess with making my own wps or even a build but was just curious as to why ppl go with custom builds.

tdtooke:
To say custom builds are mostly eye candy is a bit of an overstatement.  For example, take the EvilG build.  One of it's patches is the one-click insert patch for adding a song to a playlist.  If you use playlists alot that's a very useful thing.  Then there's the LCD brightness patch which many people like because quite honestly the iPod is a tad on the overly bright side backlightwise.  Actually there are quite a few functional non-eyecandy changes on that build that alotta people make good use of.  

melancholydm:
aaaahhh good point makes me wonder why such features arent implemented on the core builds especially the playlist patch since its one of the most requested things.

tdtooke:
Here and there patches like that make it in.  Sometimes getting them fully flushed out so that they do what they're supposed to do without introducing a bug can be a long process, and sometimes the devs are cooking up something that will address whatever a particular patch does in a different way.  I remember hearing something about view ports or something or another which will make scrolling-margins not needed.  That and they usually have bigger fish to fry than some of these features, though many of them are useful and valid things, just not as important as playback, etc..  

GodEater:

--- Quote from: melancholydm on July 20, 2007, 09:32:25 PM ---aaaahhh good point makes me wonder why such features arent implemented on the core builds especially the playlist patch since its one of the most requested things.

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What are you basing your statement that it's one of the most requested things on?

We have around 11,000 registered forum users. There are other users who only subscribe to the mailing lists, and still more who've never made their presence known at all.

To my mind, the only people who request this feature are the ones who participate in the unsupported builds threads that feature it - which is an incredibly small percentage of rockbox users.

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